28.02.2008

Fighting fund

Keen to help, but regular SOs urgently needed

CPGB stalwart SK has sprung to our aid with a magnificent £500 donation this week, which has helped us no end overcome our immediate cash flow problems. He was followed in short order by another CPGB comrade, EB, whose £160 gift provided a second much needed boost.

And that’s not all. Two further sizable donations came from a comrade in Ireland, BD, who contributed £50 via PayPal, and TR, who sent his usual monthly cheque for £60. In addition there was £25 from AP, £20 from DC (another web donation) and £10 from FM, who added this amount to his re-subscription.

Every one of these comrades has been keen to help us overcome our immediate problems in the switch to commercial printing. And what assistance they have provided - no less than £825 in a single week! All of these were one-off donations rather than the standing orders that our special print appeal is all about. But we did get three increases in SOs this week too (albeit modest ones) - £5 a month extra from DL, and £2 each from BP and JS.

Would you believe it? - our February fund has reached the heights of £1,453 and the total of extra regular money in standing orders is up to £224. The first figure is obviously well up on where the monthly fighting fund needs to be (£1,000). But we have not yet got halfway towards the second (and in many ways more important) target of an additional £500 a month in SOs.

Nevertheless, I am delighted we have crashed through our target for February - although now I could really do with a lot of new standing orders. How about all you web readers (there were 23,755 of you last week)? Why not download a standing order form from our home page?